Libz Declare War On Activists

"In the wake of the Clark Compromise on GE, the
eco-terrorists and sandalled vandals have crawled out of
their caves and begun boasting about the violent direct
actions they will be taking," notes Libertarianz leader and
environment deregulation spokesman Peter Cresswell.

One
group in particular has caught Cresswell's eye: a group
calling themselves 'Green Gloves,' claiming the support of
some 3,000 sympathisers - who in Cresswell's words "have
called for all eco-terrorists to sign what they
hypocritically call their "pledge of non-violent direct
action."

Libertarianz uphold the right to self-defence and
the rule of law, and consequently deplore the destruction of
property these "morons," as Cresswell calls them, are eager
for. He says that libertarians "recognise that when people
are vandalising, looting and destroying there may be many
things that can be called, but 'non-violent' is not one of
them." 'Non-violence,' he says can not be stretched to cover
the many acts of violence and destruction already
perpetrated around the globe and in New Zealand in the name
of Stone Age values."

He calls for a clear signal from
Helen Clark that every act of destruction will result in
arrests and prosecution. "We should not have to sit and
watch these swaggering eco-vandals remain at large, as we
did when Nandor Tansczos' Wild Greens destroyed crop
research at Lincoln before the last electon."

To ensure
that their violence meets at least some resistance,
Cresswell calls for actions against the vandals. He has
helpfully modified the vandals' own 'pledge of property
destruction' into a pledge of forceful direct defence, and
Cresswell says he would encourage anyone to who opposes the
initiation of violence and property destruction that the
eco-vandals are promising to fill it out and mail it to them
at greengloved@yahoo.com.au

a.. Because it
is my life, my property and my right to do whatever I so
choose with both, providing I respect that same right in
others;

- and because I have the right to protect life
and the right to pursuit of happiness on this planet free
from violation by any body, whether well-meaning greenies,
cultural protectionists, religionists, eco-facists,
eco-terrorists, eco-Talebans or assorted sandalled vandals
and do-gooders who would trample of the lives of others;

b.. and because it is a matter of survival for this and
future generations that we be free to do as we so desire
with our lives and property provided we don't initiate force
on others seeking to do the same;

- and because I
recognise the life-sustaining importance of private property
I treat violence against a person's property as equivalent
in effect to violence against that person.

c.. I,
[insert your name here] demand that the full force of the
law be brought against any and every perpetrator of violent
property destruction, and I myself pledge:

- to take any
necessary forceful and direct defensive action against
anybody who attempts to exercise any degree of control or
intervention against my person or any property in the name
of "preventing the release of genetically engineered
lifeforms" irrespective of whether such action is deemed
illegal or not. Violence and destruction of private property
is a great violation of productive people, and acceptance of
such destruction is a serious threat to the values that
support civilisation. Your pledge of forceful direct defence
against eco-vandals follows in a tradition of the
retaliatory defence of property in the name of liberty and
freedom.

Display this in your home, and mail to the
eco-Taleban at Groundswell against Green Fingers, PO Box
4346 Shortland Street, Auckland, and e-mail to
greengloved@yahoo.com.au .

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